The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging. 

 Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the danger they faced, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world – a little girl they name Elida, meaning non-birth in Hebrew.

To ensure her survival, the couple must smuggle their precious baby out of the ghetto into the arms of strangers. So begins a life of constant upheaval, with Elida changing families, countries, continents and even names, countless times. Surviving the war and the Holocaust that stole her parents, the young woman never gives up hope of finding a sense of family, and the chance to belong.

A moving, powerful chronicle of overcoming impossible odds, The Forbidden Daughter is the true story of one unforgettable girl and her will to survive.

The Forbidden Daughter, By Zipora Klein Jakob, Read by Robin Siegerman

Be "That Guy" at the party with a song that makes an incredibly niche argument for you! 

Lyrics: 

We do not say Zone Enough!

it is an eight planets and five dwarfs situation

The Continents are the tectonic plates
the sole system that recapitulates
once the data is scrapped
and new measures are tapped
if the results get changed
then your method is flat
Sev-er-al new small continents
and sunken ones more than a few
Yeah, Aotearoa's a contine-e-ent
and the carribean is too!

Fish don't exist.

"Wait." I hear you ask in a vague, sad fumbling at peer review. "What about Europe?"
Henceforth, such arbitrary regions will be known as zones. 

We do not say zone enough.

The Continents are the tectonic plates
the sole system that recapitulates
once the data is scrapped
and new measures are tapped
if the results get changed
then your method is flat

Zone.

I want you to imagine the economic boon. New editions of Trivial Persuit. A revitalized game show industry. Whole new fields of unexplored pedantry-based party smalltalk. Tourism. 

Imagine, how much better it would be, after a long, tiring oceanic flight, if the attendant cames over the speaker and said:

You're now entering the European Zone

Feels like the future, right?

North and South America
plus the Carribean makes three.
Panama, the Eurasian, 
Somali, Philippine Sea
and the Agean's scattered bits
Juan Fernandez, small and wet
both words Easter also fits
Indian, Arabian
Antarctic, Easter, Scotia
the Indo-Australian
African, Juan de fuca
so don't forget the cocos
Those are the plates before ya
and while the pacific's there
we might call it Aotearoa

You're in the Zone!
You're in the Zone!
You're in the Zone!
The Zone.

Sev-er-al new small continents
and sunken ones more than a fair few
Yeah, Aotearoa's a contine-e-ent
and the carribean is too!
Oh yeah yeah it's true!
It's an eight planets and five dwarfs situation,

You're now entering the European Zone
You're now entering the European 
You're now entering 
You're now
You're now
The Zone
Feels Good
Feels Right
Say it
Zone

There's no such thing as a fish.

Zone Defense - A Song About Continents

"A Step Closer to Solving the Fermi Paradox"
By Katherine Kornei
Published on Eos.org on 24 May 2024

Audio recording by Emily Dieckman

A Step Closer to Solving the Fermi Paradox

This is a 5 minute podcast recorded by Mrs. Tate's 3rd grade class in New Orleans, LA! This podcast was produced by Eren K Wilson, a Teaching Artist in Residence at the Hynes Charter School (UNO campus)

Hynes UNO Podcast

3rd Grade - Continents Podcast

This is a series of short podcasts made during the 2024-2025 Kid smART Residency at Hynes Charter Schools.

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